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Raqua

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Registered: 2007-11-24

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Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

I use some programs from KDE in my Gnome desktop and fonts there do not look right.
I tried to solve this and installed KDE Settings app. This solved the KDE fonts problem, but messed up some of my other fonts. I have been playing with it a lot and most of the fonts now look right. In programs, everything is fine, but on web, some of fonts are very ugly. Most of them are fine, but on some pages it looks like no hinting / clearing is used. The problem is in Firefox, when I have allowed pages to use their own font. When this is turned off, all works fine, but fonts look not right everywhere. Chromium does not have this problem at all.
So how can I trace where is the problem and fix this? See images please. Thanks.

Last edited by Raqua (2010-04-02 10:19:11)

n0dix

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Re: Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

Did you creating a new profile?

Raqua

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Registered: 2007-11-24

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Re: Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

What profile?

n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

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Re: Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

Firefox profile. See the link.
I mean, create a new firefox profile, may be solved the problem.

Raqua

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Registered: 2007-11-24

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Re: Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

New profile did not solved the problem. It is really some bad font settings.

n0dix

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Re: Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

Did you try doing this?

Raqua

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Re: Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

I tried the DPI thing, but it did not help. I did not tried the font replacement thing, because going through all the fonts and changing them manually is quite a task. There should be some other way.
I tried to remove all my ubuntu font packages from AUR and installing stock, then back again to ubuntu in hope of restoring the settings, but it did not helped.
Thanks for your suggestions anyway. It was working before, so I just want it to get back to the state it was before. Unfortunately my knowledge in fonts is scarce.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

Well, you can educate yourself in fonts by reading the huge Gentoo thread.

Gen2ly

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Re: Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

Raqua, I've become a big fan of using the Ubuntu-patched version of the fonts.  I've had good success just about everywhere with them.  Read the bottom of the page for common Ubuntu-patch fonts trouble fixes.

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Re: Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

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b0uncyfr0

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Re: Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

Same here. The Ubuntu packages on aur are magnificent. A clear example is installing opera on my KDE 4 system. Fonts aren't anti-aliased that much. Installed the ubuntu packages and voila, beautiful fonts. Looks far better than clear type on windows too.

Singul

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Re: Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

I'm also using the patched packages from AUR, already did that on Debian before and it really is a vast improvement, having it set to subpixel rendering with slight hinting. Fonts look so nice and smooth then, without being blurry

Moo-Crumpus

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Re: Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

which packages are those?

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VLegacy

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Re: Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

which packages are those?

I believe these are the packages in question: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fon … d_packages

smakked

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Re: Fonts configuration Gnome/KDE

I use the Ubuntu Packages and in firefox Untick let webpages use there own fonts , and force pages to use Dejavu Sans

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